Re: SV: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-13 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Another silly newbie q: What's an NMU? Non Maintainer Upload, it's when the debian developer can't upload to fix a bug. Please fix you mailer. It is tagging the subject line in some obscure way. Please use "Re: " instead of "SV: ". TIA - Peter Makholm -- I congratu

SV: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-13 Thread vw
not shown > Emne: Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade > > Le 1999-08-12, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait : > > > This is due to a recent bash NMU which now pre-depends on the potato > > libreadlineg2 which conflicts with the slink bash. > > > > Bash -MUST- be

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Aug-99 Julian Gilbey wrote: >>From what I recall from the GNU ftp site, bash-2.04 includes > libreadline-4.0, so the major number *has* been bumped up. Perhaps we > could switch to that which might alleviate this problem? > I don't know what is going on, but if I put a "hold" on the bash

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Le 1999-08-12, Jason Gunthorpe _crivait : > > > This is due to a recent bash NMU which now pre-depends on the potato > > libreadlineg2 which conflicts with the slink bash. > > > > Bash -MUST- be re-uploaded with the proper changes made so

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread John Hasler
Jason writes: > Apparently it is usable enough to startup and run scripts. What you might > be able to get away with is to put a normal Depends: librealine on bash - > but I am not sure. > Probably the best answer is that bash should not require bash to install > itself! A while back I had a libr

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Thomas Quinot wrote: > > Bash -MUST- be re-uploaded with the proper changes made so that it can > > exist with the slink libreadlineg2 ASAP. > > This is not so simple. Bash is unusable with slink's libreadline. > Three bugs of severity important existed in the BTS for this >

Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-12 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 1999-08-12, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait : > This is due to a recent bash NMU which now pre-depends on the potato > libreadlineg2 which conflicts with the slink bash. > > Bash -MUST- be re-uploaded with the proper changes made so that it can > exist with the slink libreadlineg2 ASAP. This is not

WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade

1999-08-11 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Package: bash Version: 2.02.1-1.5 Hi all, The current bash/libreadline dependencies in potato are formed in an conflicts/pre-depends loop that causes APT to remove bash, install libreadlineg2 and then try to reinstall bash (which fails because bash needs bash to install [remove actually]..) Newer